President Bush is making class-action and malpractice lawsuit reform a top priority. Yep, I feel like vomiting myself right up to the emergency room.

The very idea that any person of the lower class voted to keep this man in power when his top domestic priority is to take away one of their few pieces of leverage against the rich and powerful is... I mean.... ???

Two things.

First, while I'm very excited about the return of baseball to DC, I don't understand why the city council has to pay for it and why Major League Baseball has to bribe the District into it--- and pretend that it's good for small businesses. Also, the team should have been called The Senators again, not The Nationals.

Second, let's discuss Scott Peterson. While I know very little about the man or the case, I looked through reports yesterday of the evidence and testimony leading to his conviction. So it obviously left me wondering how somebody can be sentenced to the death penalty for a conviction based entirely on circumstantial evidence. You can apparently also get executed for "not showing emotion" during the penalty phase.

I'm sorry, but our criminal justice system is sick.

On election night, I said: if Powell stays and Rumsfeld goes, it's not so bad.

Well, it's pretty bad. Oh, and Chuck Hagel thinks so too.

And by the way, here's what Dean said about the future of the Democratic Party.

Yeah, yeah, it's been a month; get over it.

A lot's happened--- I'm sure you know all about it.

I think the most exciting thing is the re-emergence of Howard Dean. He must become DNC Chair, but if he becomes DNC Chair he can't run for President, which he must also do. He talks a lot about keeping the Democratic Party from running "Republican-Lite" campaigns (like the one we just went through), but sometimes I wonder whether he himself would have succumed to this psychosis had he been the nominee.

Also: you know Bush's plan to save social security? Not so much.